I often file away links with the intention of including them in my weekly Outtakes post. Too often, though, the links stack up, grow dated, and get pushed to the bottom of the slush pile. Here are a handful that are worthy dusting off and giving new link-life:
Worldview movies -- "How many movies quote R.C. Sproul by name?" ask Patrick Poole in an intriguing list of movies that illuminate various worldviews. (Answer: Only one -- the 1995 vampire flick The Addiction)
optimism -- "every time i buy something, i like to think i'm one step closer to completing my collection of everything in the world."
Why I Don't Believe in God — and You Shouldn't Either -- Excerpt: "That is why I don't believe in G-O-D. When the term no longer faithfully points to the Triune whom I worship, I must give it up." (HT: prosthesis
Natural Law: The Four Witnesses -- JCHFleetguy examines philosopher J. Budziszewski's four "witnesses" that tell us of the content of natural law.
Advice to Christian Bloggers from G. K. Chesterton -- David Wayne applies some lessons from Chesterton's example as a journalist to the world of bloggers.
Religion, politics and semantics: America as a “Christian nation” -- Timothy Goddard takes on Greg Boyd's "The Myth of a Christian Nation", a book in which he takes after the evangelical church for being "co-opted by the conservative political movement."
Mapping religion in America -- Geitner Simmons has an intriguing set of maps that use data on a county-by-county basis to focus on various aspects of religion in America.
Marriage and the Public Good: Ten Principles -- Excerpt: "10. "Civil marriage" and "religious marriage" cannot be rigidly or completely divorced from one another."
Sayers on Children -- Amanda Witt marshalls Dorothy Sayers to argue for why we should "talk over the heads" of children.
Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore -- Eric Kintz, VP Global Marketing Strategy & Excellence for Hewlett-Packard, offers a refreshing perspective that I pray is true.
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My personal favorite is advice from Chesterton. Especially the part about not taking ourselves too seriously. As Field pointed out, even though one may be writing about a very serious subject, like Chesterton, joy should somehow still come through. That's just one of the reasons I try to come up with some cartoons, just to keep things, not light, but joyfully serious. thus spoke churchpundit!
posted on 10.18.2006 12:03 PM2
That last post nails it. You would not believer how many subscriptions I've cut for posting too frequently with sub-part essays.
posted on 10.18.2006 12:03 PM3
I don’t believe in the Christian god, speaking of an article in your post, the god Church claims to have as a father.
posted on 10.18.2006 12:12 PM4
All good links but I have to agree, that last article is excellent.
... and very free-ing in an odd and unexpected way.
posted on 10.18.2006 12:33 PM5
I'd like to find Eric Kintz and give him a big kiss.
(Okay, you get one too for posting the link :-) )
posted on 10.18.2006 6:46 PM6
re: blog-post frequency
Frequent posting keeps key senior executives ... out of the blogosphere
I've never seen a more valid reason to post every 5 minutes. ;-)
posted on 10.22.2006 10:33 PM7
I couldn't agree more with Sayers as related by Amanda Witt. I heard the magnificent and glorious language of the old (pre-1979) Book of Common Prayer again and again from early childhood. Many years later, by God's grace, I came to understand it.
posted on 10.24.2006 4:29 PM